How abortion
is destroying America:
52.3 million abortions is equivalent to
the population of our 65 largest cities, from New York all the way down to
cities the size of St. Paul, MN. (See
map.)
That's the toll abortion has already reached
at the current rate of 1,250,000 abortions a year. It’s equal to or greater
than the human loss we would have experienced from an all-out nuclear war. Yet
we are told to sit passively by and endure it by the pro-abortion ideologues of
the left who dominate our culture, our media, our politics and our courts.
It adds up to a 31.5% loss in the younger generation under age 40. The toll includes some
17 million African-American babies and nearly 36 million others. That's about
11,000 times as many African-Americans as were lynched since 1900. It amounts
to a holocaust against blacks and against the young. It is the greatest loss
ever inflicted on any generation in history. How can anyone with a conscience
stand silent in the face of it?
Abortion has major social and economic
costs as well. The estimated loss in
U.S. GDP already exceeds $38 trillion -- more than twice our current national
debt. That's why, even if abortion ends tomorrow, it will still take more than
a generation to recover.
Nothing else has ever had a more depressing
effect on the U.S. and the world economy. Meanwhile, it is being compounded by
a dramatic decline in births in France, Germany, Italy, England, Spain, Japan
and even China. Only the Muslim world continues to grow at a rapid clip. As a
result, much of Europe will become predominantly Muslim within a generation. If
we want a better world for ourselves and our children, we must raise a great
hue and cry right now.
No kids, no future. It's as simple as
that.
Abortion is also driving the greatest health care and education crisis in
history. As baby boom nurses and teachers retire, we face a looming
shortage of 1 million nurses and 2 million teachers. We also face critical
shortages in key professions such as science, medicine, and higher education.
Abortion and more efficient birth control together have wiped out about half of
our future human resources. With a growing number of elderly baby boomers in
need of critical care, the only way to ease this crisis is to end abortion or
drastically reduce health care for the elderly. Liberal politicians would
rather do the latter.
Politicians promise to remedy these
shortages with their usual shell games. They promise aggressive new training programs for nurses and teachers,
but never bother to explain where they are going to get the people to fill
them. Such programs can’t restore the vast human resources that have been
poured down the population control rathole over the last 35 to 40 years.
Besides, such programs have a long history
of being nothing but a sham.
When former President Carter was Governor of
Georgia, he signed a deal promising to train 2,000 workers for a new smoke
detector factory as long as the manufacturer promised to hire just half of
them. In less than three years, the company was wiped out by cheap imports and
never hired more than 800 people even at its peak. Not much later, it sold the
factory. All the promised jobs disappeared.
"Training programs" like that are
a dime a dozen, but they rarely work. Besides, you can't bring back the
millions of lives that have already been sacrificed to the idol of abortion.
The next time we see them will be at the Last Judgment when they show up to
accuse those who stood by silently while they were slaughtered. Some folks are in for a big surprise.
Another consequence of abortion is a
disastrous shift in the supply-demand equation that underlies our economy. Kids contribute to demand even before they are born,
but they don’t compete in the work force for 20 years. That’s why 52.3 million
abortions represent a huge loss in consumer demand. If those babies had been
born, our fast-paced economy would still be going strong. Those we aborted were
the future consumers, producers, parents and taxpayers we needed keep to keep
our economy growing.
The 4-2-1-0 family model is a dead end. Four
grandparents who have two children, who then marry and have one child represent
a huge loss in future growth. That's why China is already starting relent on its 1 child per family policy. Pursued, it means the end of China
within 100 years. Russia already faces the same debacle, They no longer
have enough younger women to raise a new generation -- and their population is
forecast to decline by 33% by 2050.
If the U.S. doesn’t change direction, we
could face the same fate. Unless we end abortion soon, the U.S. faces a long
term economic decline that could prove far worse than the Great Depression.
As early as 1994, I began predicting the
collapse of the stock market that finally came in 2000. In 1997, we published a
special report and a video titled, “The Abortion Bomb.” In 1998, I repeated the warning in an
exchange with Gene Epstein, economics editor of Barron's. He predicted that the
rally going on then would continue for another decade. I warned that a whole long list of stocks
would soon take a tumble. It was a
collapse that was inevitable based on the demographics. The collapse began soon
after the market top in March, 2000, and was followed by the one of the biggest
market setbacks in history.
A major factor in the 2000-2009 crisis was
the inability of the Baby Bust generation to absorb the inflated real estate
and other investments of the high-flying Baby Boomers as they approached
retirement. The decline in the rate of growth of personal incomes going on
since the ‘70’s, combined with outsourcing and the shipment of manufacturing
jobs overseas, and a 50% reduction in birth rates since 1970 all combined to
bring about the crisis. Compounding things, of course, was everything going on
in Washington and Wall Street to keep the bubble going. In the end, they
failed.
Still another factor is the downstream loss
in future tax revenues caused by high abortion rates and more efficient birth
control. That loss already amounts to
an estimated $19 or $20 trillion. With growth in government revenues, the
ability of government to bail things out is itself compromised. The problem
with socialist solutions is that the government itself won’t be able to afford
them.
The abortion boom is also behind the
coming crisis in Social Security and Medicare. In 1940, we had 145 people in the workforce for
every person on Social Security. That's when it looked like a great idea!
By 1952, the ratio had dropped to 16 to 1. It is now 3.1 to 1. In less
than 20 years, it will be only 2 to 1. That's when the government Ponzi
scheme will be all over.
To save these programs from bankruptcy, the
Congressional Budget Office has estimated that tax rates will have to rise as
high as 82%. And guess who will pay the
bill? You and your children and grandchildren, that's who!
What can you do to help?
The answer is not hiding from the
controversy about abortion or from the even more polarizing political debate.
This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue. It is a profoundly moral and
human issue.
The solution is for we, the people, to
speak up. We need more honest,
open discussion in our homes, our churches, and our communities -- not
continued censorship and suppression of the discussion by the politically
correct media and the courts. Churches
that remain silent will only have themselves to blame when the full crisis hits
their congregations and their collection plates.
We urgently need to build a new pro-life majority
by changing hearts and opening minds. Unless economic and social conservatives can unite on this common ground, chances for reversing the current direction in Washington are dim.
That can only achieved by talking more
honestly and compassionately about the problem in our families, our communities
and in our churches, and by educating young people about what is really at
stake for their futures. We need to tell them that there is no rosy glow at the
end of the abortion road.
Talk to your pastors and youth ministers.
Write letters to the editor. Make calls to call-in talk shows. Send emails and
write blogs. Reach out compassionately to those whose lives have been adversely
affected by abortion. And by all means, spread the word about our website:
http://www.movementforabetteramerica.org
Above all, give generously to support
our new Campaign for Life. This
campaign can't run on fumes any more than your automoblie can. When our voice goes silent, who
will be there to speak out as we have? We can't continue this struggle
without your help.
Remember, if all of those who believe
in life could help change just one other person’s mind and heart today, we
would have a pro-life majority tomorrow.
Nothing else will end abortion.
Join your voice with ours. Share your thoughts with us by emailing us at:
info@movementforabetteramerica.org
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